Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired again on the Worldwide Legal Courtroom, accusing its judges of holding “antisemitic hatred toward Israel” after they issued a warrant for his arrest over alleged struggle crimes in Gaza.
Netanyahu personally rebuked ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Wednesday.
The Hague put out arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his former protection chief Yoav Gallant. REUTERS
“The decision was made by a corrupt chief prosecutor attempting to save himself from serious allegations of sexual harassment, and by biased judges driven by antisemitic hatred toward Israel,” Mr Netanyahu mentioned, in keeping with The Telegraph.
Netanyahu is the primary chief of a contemporary Western democracy to be needed by the world’s highest legal court docket.
The tribunal in The Hague has additionally accused his former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant of struggle crimes.
US officers slammed the ICC’s choice as a “dangerous” act that undermines the Jewish state’s proper to defend itself.
Worldwide Legal Courtroom Prosecutor Karim Khan accused the Israeli and Hamas leaders of participating in struggle crimes over the battle in Gaza. REUTERS
“The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision,” mentioned a White Home Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson.
The US is just not a member of the ICC and the court docket has by no means arrested anybody on US soil prior to now. Israel additionally is just not a member.
The warrants threat additional isolating Israel because the struggle in Gaza has now unfold to Lebanon. Fadal Itani/UPI/Shutterstock
Together with the Israeli leaders, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Deif, the supreme commander of Hamas’s army wing who orchestrated the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that killed greater than 1,200 folks and began the struggle.
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